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next day to Innsbruck ria the Avlbery route. At Innsbruck we had 

 time to admire some of the sights of that most beautifully situated 

 and interesting town, and then on next day, by rail, over the Brenner 

 Pass to Botzen. Here we left the railway, and travelled by a species 

 of diligence to Mendel. This drive is extremely interesting, the road 

 on leaving Botzen passes through a long series of vineyards for some 

 distance, and then ascends by a succession of zigzags to the summit of 

 the Mendel Pass (4,440 ft.) ; the views in ascending are truly magnificent 

 as the traveller looks across the Grodener Thai to a grand range of 

 Dolomite mountains, some snow-capped, others huge masses of 

 apparently bare rock, varying much in contour and colour. We stayed 

 at ]\Iendel some days, but I do not intend to enter into any description 

 of the collecting in that particular locality, as an abler pen than mine 

 has already described our sport ; Mr. Tutt having joined us there on 

 our return. 



Our route from ^lendel was by carriage, ria Cavareno to Dimaro, 

 in the Val di Sole, a small hamlet where we passed the night, going 

 next day to Pejo, another small village lying in the Val di Pei, and 

 situated immediately under the giant Ortler group of mountains. 



Our first day's collecting here was encouraging, for by following 

 the right bank of a mountain stream we soon made the acquaintance 

 of such insects as Mditaea iiiaturna, Aif/jjunis thore and Carteruccjihalus 

 jxilaeiiKiii, besides commoner species. The following day we worked 

 up to higher ground, where we found in fair abundance i'.'/v/nV/ lapjhma, 

 E. ti/)i(larits, Mditaea ri/)ithia ■enidLj/cai'iia orhitulns, flying over the short 

 turf ; but a greater prize was in store for us in Oeneis aiillo, which 

 insect appeared to haunt the bare rocks at the foot of preci- 

 pices, flying much in the same manner, and settling occasionally 

 on stones, as does our own Sati/rm sonde. From Pejo we returned to 

 Dimaro, and having placed our luggage on the back of a mule, started 

 on foot for Campiglio, a very hot up-hill grind of some four hours on 

 an abominably rough mule-path. Campiglio itself, an old monastery 

 now turned into a hotel, lies at the top of a pass at an elevation of 

 4,960 ft., and is singularly interesting and beautiful in its surroundings. 

 Our collecting there extended over a considerable tract of country, 

 some in fine open flowering glades in the pine forests, where we found 

 Lycaena aleon Hying over the flowers in company Avith Krehia ti/ndarus, 

 An/i/nnis ino, Erehia cnri/ede and others. Mounting higher on the 

 mountain slopes, we met CcAias pJiieoiiuiue, Erehia ktjjpona, Erebia (/on/e 

 var. trioiu's, Ar(/ij)inis pales and its variety napaeae, but our greatest 

 prize was Erebia iiwlas. This insect, familiar to Pyrenean collectors, 

 was not known to inhabit the Tyrol until an English lady, Mrs. 

 NichoU, captured it in 1890, and to show how, at the present day, the 

 Germans are unconscious of Mrs. Nicholl's discovery, I may mention 

 that a German entomologist from Dresden, who was collecting on the 

 same ground with us, insisted upon the butterfly being Erehia (/lacialis 

 var. pluto. 



E. iiielas has a singularly unpleasant habit of flying only on very 

 steep slippery rubble banks at the foot of sheer precipices ; running 

 after it is an obvious impossibility, and the only course is to struggle 

 painfully up some 30 or 40 yards, and sit down waiting for a chance 

 of it coming within range of the net, or else laboriously creeping 

 after one which has chanced to settle on a stone ; even then captiu-e 



